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Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk

I just had to post this Wall Street Journal article, to point out what seems to be what the president is most focused on, and what he sees a top priority.

Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk
By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON

EXCERPT

But as president, Mr. Obama has neglected the court. He has played only seven known games of basketball since taking office, compared with 25 rounds of golf, a sport he picked up about a decade ago when he was an Illinois state senator. That's more golf than former President George W. Bush played in two terms, according to CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who tracks presidential trivia. (In 2003, Mr. Bush quit golf, saying he did so out of respect for the troops serving in Iraq. Since leaving office, he has returned to the sport, an aide says.)

Re: Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk

Originally Posted by liblady

this is breaking news? do you ever post anything that is not blatantly partisan?

Do you ever have an opinion that isn't?

"He who does not think himself worth saving from poverty and ignorance by his own efforts, will hardly be thought worth the efforts of anybody else." -- Frederick Douglass, Self-Made Men (1872)
"Fly-over" country voted, and The Donald is now POTUS.

Re: Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk

Originally Posted by liblady

this is breaking news? do you ever post anything that is not blatantly partisan?

The article itself isn't really partisan... I just thought it was quite interesting that while we have some of the most pressing issues this country has faced in decades, that president Obama has found the time to golf 25 times, when he hasn't even made a decision on the troops he's sending to Afghanistan.

I remember how the left hammered Bush when he golfed, but I guess democrats have two sets of standards.

Re: Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk

Originally Posted by Grim17

I just had to post this Wall Street Journal article, to point out what seems to be what the president is most focused on, and what he sees a top priority.

Yeah this is some breaking news. Well other than him quitting gold because of an injury and him playing again before the end of his term. Much like him quitting drinking but drinking before the end of his term.

Re: Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk

Originally Posted by liblady

absolutely.

Okay, so it was partisan, and not blatantly partisan.

"He who does not think himself worth saving from poverty and ignorance by his own efforts, will hardly be thought worth the efforts of anybody else." -- Frederick Douglass, Self-Made Men (1872)
"Fly-over" country voted, and The Donald is now POTUS.

Re: Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk

Okay I've seen this complaint about Obama now for some time. To be fair, I don't know if I can blame him for playing golf as a reason for his delays. I think it's just his nature to be indecisive. Afterall GHWB went to Kennebunkport a lot, and GWB went to Crawford. It didn't affect their decisions.

"He who does not think himself worth saving from poverty and ignorance by his own efforts, will hardly be thought worth the efforts of anybody else." -- Frederick Douglass, Self-Made Men (1872)
"Fly-over" country voted, and The Donald is now POTUS.

This is what I hate about politics the most, it turns people in snobbish egotistical self righteous dicks who allow their political beliefs, partisan attitudes, and 'us vs. them' mentality, to force them to deny reality.

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You can't paint everone with the same brush.......It does not work tht way.

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See with you around Captain we don't even have to make arguments, as you already know everything .

Originally Posted by CriticalThought

Had you been born elsewhere or at a different time you may very well have chosen a different belief system.

Originally Posted by ernst barkmann

It a person has faith they dont need to convince another of it, and when a non believer is not interested in listening to the word of the lord, " you shake the dust from your sandels and move on"

Re: Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk

"Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk"

I see no proof of this. How many strokes is he taking? I'd like to compare.

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully. Psalm 24"True law is right reason in agreement with nature . . . Whoever is disobedient is fleeing from himself and denying his human nature [and] will suffer the worst penalties . . ." - Cicero